to think poor shannon deserves more coverage???

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Raw subject i know, and im thinking maybe this thread has already been done? but i cant help feeling that missing Shannon just isnt getting enough coverage in the papers/news etc..

Today i was in the middle of a huge discussion about this and there were mixed opinions but the bottom line was that because they are from a low class estate and the mother has 7 kids that somehow its their fault!!

This is just my opinion im not saying i am right, would just like to know how others see it??

That was an emotionally charged post, sorry, the rude bit was directed at the people describing her in that way.

Fwiw it is statistically far more likely to be a person known to the family, if anyone is to blame for this disappearance.

I hope she is hiding out somewhere and being looked after.

Has it occurred to any of you on the working class bandwagon that possibly the media has gone somewhat quiet because the police have a firm idea of what has happened to her, and are quietly gathering enough evidence and intelligence in such a way as not to prejudice any future trial of an alleged perpetrator ?

I hope that's true, MrsPanic. I really do.
I thought the publicity around MM was potentially counter productive...I guess none of us know.

I just really wish I could do something to help.

FloraPosteschild I do agree. she looks very sweet and is only 9

I think you might be right Mrspanic - and Desi too - you've both managed to sum up in 2 lines what I was falling over myself to say previously.

it must be an unimaginable torment one way or the other. But sadly my theory holds good if something bad is thought to have happened to her already. Poor little child. my dd is the same age.

People keep going on and on about the whole class thing, etc.

But people seem to missing the point that this child is being looked for, it has not been dropped. The hunt for Shannon is one of the biggest police hunts ever.

I also think it is a very dfferent sitation. In the beginning it was very unclear as to whether the girl had been taken or had run away. This is still not fully clear, although they seem more convinced about the former sadly now.

I also think the fact that the child is older (old enough to consider running away for example) and it is in the Uk, rather than on holiday abroad makes it different too.

It is on our local news daily, so I hear about it all the time. Haven't seen National news so much recently so can't really comment on that - but even the parents themslves has said that their case can't be compared to that of the McCanns, the situations are to different.

See you point Desi. [how are you btw]

Mrspanic- I don't think it is a bandwagon tho' I agree that this particular case may be more complicated.
Children who go missing from nice safe mc neighbourhoods do get more publicity than children from poorer backgrounds in general.

My gut feeling is there is a lot more to this than we know and the police know what is going on even if they don't know exactly where she is.

With all the class stuff, 7 kids by 6 dads and the fmaily throwing in comments about the mother's partner, I can't see the media just giving up with her without the police telling them too.

batters - wrong thread.

lol at batters

But the police are saying this is the biggest search in Yorkshire since the Ripper - they are throwing everything they've got at it! What else should they be doing?

well this thread is upping the coverage so keep on keeping on.

i know you ar not suppose to jump to conclusions and that, but i so would not be surprised if we hear down the line that the step dad had something to do with it. something about him is not right..

is that true WW? i didnt know that, i started this thread because of public opinion and what i felt wasnt being done, but maybe then it is true that the police have somesort of reason for the lack of exposure

ooh yes he looks a bit funny doesn't he. Tut tut. Looks a bit like a ( insert criminal tag - eg paedo/kiddy fiddler etc - of your choice). Good helpful comments I see.

Benbon - comments like yours are one of the reasons that I think over-coverage of such things is not necessarily helpful.

Do you know what you are on about or is that an opinion based on watching a tv interview?

dear me benbon

yes poor shannon

Yes, as I mentioned before, this is a huge scale hunt for Shannon. IThe story has been on the BBc website daily since she disappeared.

The scale of the hunt

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Is that the right link TG?

I think the main difference is it was immediately clear that something untowards had happened to Madeleine McCann, a 3 y/o doesn't just vanish from their bed.
However Shannon was 9 and walking home from school alone, she could very well have run away. For the first few hours she could have been quite happy at a friend's house.
Whatsmore Shannon's story doesn't have quite the same SHOCK value as maddie's, it is, comparatively a lot more common for children of upper primary/lower secondary school age to go missing, and sadly those from broken homes (regardless of class) off the top of my head I can think of sarah payne, holly and jessica, milly dowler, the two little girls who were abducted on their way to school in the late 90's and found, I can only think of Elizabeth Smart in America who was snatched from her bed, and the fact her name is recognised in england shows how rare an occurance that is.

I just pray she is found safe soon

I hope the police aren't playing the media because they have an idea of what has happened (and she's safe)